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- From: amercer@desire.wright.edu (Art Mercer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: Amiga MINIX floppy problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.140810.16734@eve.wright.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 18:08:31 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.034442.17351@nap.amoco.com>
- Reply-To: amercer@desire.wright.edu
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- From article <1992Aug21.034442.17351@nap.amoco.com>, by stmckenna@nap.amoco.com (Stephen T. McKenna):
- >
- > Just to let you know your problems aren't unique:
-
- I'll agree to that, in my case it was the Amiga boot disk. Thankfully, I had
- down-loaded the 1.5.10.1 & 1.5.10.2 patches and got a good .img file...
-
- [omitted...]
-
- > Although Minix is running now, it goes through disks at a furious rate. The
- > typical situation is sudden unrecoverable read or write errors, frequently in
- > groups of 5 consecutive blocks. The transfer command is particularly prone
- > to corrupting disks this way; when transferring from the Amiga to the Minix
- > side I usually write a half dozen disks in hope that one will read.
- >
-
- I have yet to get transfer to work. But CrossDos has solved most of my
- problems.
-
- > I don't think patches are the answer; I've patched up to 1.5.10.2 and not
- > seen any improvement, although the patches are worthwhile anyway. My advice
- > on muddling by is to keep everything write-protected whenever possible; this
- > includes /usr at boot and login time (Minix will gripe about the write-protect
- > when it tries to write /usr/adm/wtmp, but that's harmless).
-
- On the subject of 1.5.10.2, I cannot get it working with the supplied "ttys"
- file and haven't had time to write Michael. Any suggestions???
- >
- > I have admittedly old hardware (6 year old A1000 with a 68020 add-on) but it
- > has never had disk drive problems.
- >
- > Can anyone out there offer explanations or (hopefully) suggestions?
- >
- > Steve McKenna
- > stmckenna@nap.amoco.com
- > Amoco Research Center
- > Naperville, IL, USA
- >
-
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- Art Mercer
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